Until Proven Guilty - Hardcover

Christine McGuire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671750119 ISBN 13: 9780671750114

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1993

Synopsis

Struggling with the demands of single motherhood and the pressures of her job as assistant district attorney, Kathryn Mackay finds herself working side by side with former lover Dave Granz to track a serial killer. 50,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

Christine McGuire teaches at the academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Quantico, Virginia.

From Publishers Weekly:

McGuire, a California prosecutor who made her literary debut with an account of a real-life sexual enslavement case ( Perfect Victim ), turns her attention to crime fiction with gripping results. This unrelenting third-person account of a vicious serial killer all but commands readers to burn the midnight oil. It reveals the criminal's identity from the start: Lee Russell, a high-school teacher, slays and mutilates teenage Hispanic girls who remind him of his hated stepsister. While on a tour of duty in Saigon, Lee murdered Saigon prostitutes; never discovered, he now feels invincible and sends coded messages about his more recent victims to the Santa Rita, Calif., sheriff's office. There, senior trial attorney Kathryn Mackay and her partner, Inspector Dave Granz, unflinchingly sift through the gruesome evidence of Russell's horrific crimes. Kathryn, a divorcee and mother of a six-year-old daughter, juggles home life, police work and friendships with her colleagues; she also meets her nemesis, true-crime TV reporter Richard Sanchez, who jeopardizes the investigation by broadcasting information obtained from an inside source. McGuire expertly builds suspense as the killer's path converges with that of the law. Although the squeamish may want to avert their eyes from the book's hideous scenes of torture and murder, pathological details and criminal profiles unfailingly rivet the attention.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0671750119
• ISBN 13: 9780671750114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368